The decision was discussed at a meeting held by President Alberto Fernández and the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa.
The measure that is under analysis in principle would not include the deregistration of the company’s concession, in which the Italian firm Enel has the majority of the shares.
In the meeting with President Fernández, Massa presented a report prepared by the ENRE on the Edesur service centered on the company’s contractual breaches.
This morning, the ENRE controller, Walter Martello, rejected the arguments given by the distributor Edesur in a request to justify the power outages that in recent days affected hundreds of thousands of users in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA). .
“Today the Edesur company of the Enel group publishes a request referring to the extraordinary situation of the high temperatures on Friday. The graph is from a few minutes ago, that is, five days later and 20 degrees less than temperature. a”, stressed Martello.
This is how he referred to the graph published by the distributor where it is shown that at 8.10 there were still 15,000 Edesur users without electricity supply, when the temperature did not reach 23 degrees.
In the request, the electric company maintained that “February was presented as the hottest in the last 60 years”, and pointed out that “last Friday the 10th, at 1:45 p.m., Edesur registered a historical record of energy demand of 4,181 megawatts (MW)”
Source: Ambito
